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Flowering Hope There will be a minor theme of flowers and gardens for this little trip. We'll start at Hope Chapel, though this is more a graveyard than a garden.

I didn't really set out with a theme of flowers and gardens in mind for this walk. I just fancied heading up to Clifton Village to get lunch. As it turned out, though, Spring was springing, so a minor theme emerged as I started off with the graveyard flowers of Hope Chapel and wandered up to see the beginnings of the new wildflower garden at Clifton Hill Meadow.

Mon 18 April 2022, 11:24 to 13:29
Sector:  NE
Images: 48
Distance: 4.46km
Duration: 2h 5m 0s
Total Elevation Gain: 508m
There will be a minor theme of flowers and gardens for this little trip. We'll start at Hope Chapel, though this is more a graveyard than a garden.
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Flowering Hope
There will be a minor theme of flowers...
I first heard of Clerihews in the Times crossword: The Clerihew is: a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentle...
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Clerihew
I first heard of Clerihews in the Times...
A wider view of Humphry Davy's former residence.
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Corner House, Dowry Square
A wider view of Humphry Davy's former residence....
A lovely garden. Sadly a little lacking in facilities at the moment, after some scrote (or presumably a team thereof) had it away with their cast i...
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Dowry Square Garden
A lovely garden. Sadly a little lacking...
Where fly tipping happens, more like. This scrap of land (with a public bench hidden on the far end, against the back fence behind the red bins) ha...
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Where Caring Matters
Where fly tipping happens, more like. This...
I've taken plenty of snaps looking at Holy Trinity from the road, but I think this may be my first looking at the road from Holy Trinity. There wa...
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From Holy Trinity
I've taken plenty of snaps looking at Holy...
On a previous wander I posted a historical photo of the church including this tree, and one from the modern day. It's grown up quite a lot in the...
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Veteran
On a previous wander I posted a historical...
This is the south end of Camden Terrace's little private garden, seeing as I seem to be on a bit of a garden and flower theme at the mo.
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Garden End
This is the south end of Camden Terrace's...
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Private
The bench at the top of Clifton Vale doesn't really have a view, and it's squeezed into an awkward little corner in the tight dogleg turn up to Gol...
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Shirley and Bob Savage
The bench at the top of Clifton Vale doesn't...
See? This is why there's a bench at the top.
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Clifton Vale
See? This is why there's a bench at the...
Strategically-placed grit box, because this tight blind (hence the mirror) zig-zag is hard enough work without a sheet of ice on the corner on a wi...
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In Situ
Strategically-placed grit box, because...
Well, I think it's a California Lilac, Ceanothus. I could be wrong. Whatever it is, it's pretty.
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Lilac
Well, I think it's a California Lilac,...
Even with the help of my plant consultant* I haven't identified this. I thought it was some kind of lily; she rather thought it might be some varie...
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Raggedy
Even with the help of my plant consultant*...
I thought I'd come and see how the wildflower garden was getting along. It's its first year, after a crowdfunder last year raised nearly £2000 to b...
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Clifton Hill Meadow
I thought I'd come and see how the wildflower...
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Aforementioned Signage
This is one of the three experimental areas. Nothing too apparent so far, but it's early dyas.
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Experiment
This is one of the three experimental areas....
I left it a bit too late for a host of golden daffodils, most are on the turn. So here's a close-up of a selected still-perky individual.
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Daffy
I left it a bit too late for a host of...
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Daff and Dandelions
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Blossom